By Ankit Panda
The pre-2011 status quo in US-Pakistan relations is not coming back. Now's the time to determine its replacement.
In case you missed it, over the weekend, Politico Magazine published an incredibly incisive and candid excerpt from Husain Haqqani’s book-slash-memoir,Magnificent Delusions, on his tenure as Pakistan’s Ambassador the United States. Haqqani brings a credible insider’s voice to the debate about the increasingly-fragile U.S.-Pakistan relations. His thesis? “Pakistan and the United States have few shared interests and very different political needs.”
There has been a fair amount of recent writing from experts on both sides of the relationship arguing for its termination, or at least trimming down its scope. Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran and Brookings expert, published a book earlier this year arguing that the United States’ strategic realignment in South Asia is long overdue and could keep the region from nuclear war. Riedel knows what he’s talking about; he was after all, the sole man in the room with Bill Clinton and Nawaz Sharif in 1999, just prior to the latter falling victim to a bloodless coup by Pervez Musharraf and the Pakistani military.
Read the full story at The Diplomat